Vacuum attachment for grooming cats and dogs

A vacuum head for grooming cats and dogs comprising:

• a hollow housing providing a passageway therethrough from an inlet at one first upstream end and an outlet at a second downstream end,
• the second end connectable to a vacuum system for air flow into the housing via the inlet and through the passageway downstream to the outlet to exit the housing via the outlet,
• the housing about the inlet comprising a containment shroud,
• the shroud having front, rear and opposite side walls defining the passageway therebetween with the walls having leading edges defining a perimeter of the inlet,
• the leading edges of each of the front wall and rear wall disposed in an arcuate shape, arching from one side wall to the other such that middle portions of the leading edges of each of the front wall and rear wall are, with increased distance from the side walls, increasingly farther downstream from the leading edges of the side walls,
• a comb member carried on the rear wall having a spline carrying a plurality of tines each extending from the spline to a distal end thereof,
• the spline of the comb member extending across the rear wall from substantially one side wall to the other side wall,
• the tines extending from the spline towards their distal ends at an angle towards the front wall and upstream,
• the distal ends of the tines disposed in an arcuate shape such that tines are, with increased distance from the side walls, increasingly farther downstream.